The Sadhanas of the Brotherhood Of The Sacred Word

The Sadhanas
By Julian Lee
Brotherhood Of The Sacred Word
Copyright 2009 Julian Lee

Purple = Activities that are of greatest worth AND efficacy
Red = Activities especially efficacious in their impact and sharp in their action

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Reading about Jesus, saints, gurus, great yogis, and virtuous men.

2
Reading great religious scriptures

COMMENTARY

Favorites I recommend are:
The Bible, particularly the words of Christ.

The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah,

The Bhagavad-Gita (as many translations and commentaries as you can find;
don't settle with just one. They are not all alike.)
The Yoga-Vasistha
The Gospel of Ramakrishna,
Works by yogic saints.
The talks and writings of Paramahansa Yogananda,
and Swami Muktananda.
The Guru Gita.
Generally, read what gives you
inspiration and a re-affirmation of vital truths such as the value of meditation
and bhakti.
The talks of Ramana Maharshi are very valuable if read with
a cultured eye. (The principles of guru-devotion and chastity, strongly
present in his life and background, are submerged.) It gives a great
understanding of the centrality of the mind in the world manifestation,
and some good metaphysical insight.
The works of Christian saints, as you are able to
discover them, especially the great Christian "bhakta" saints
(those whose religious practice was founded in a deeply felt
devotional attitude to Christ.) They achieved one-pointed concentration,
samadhi, and mergence with God via this bhakti and
concentrative techniques, whether formal or spontaneous.

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Calling out to God within, sharing problems with God
(an aspect of prayer)

COMMENTARY

This is simple and available to all, and it is an entry portal to
devotion and guru-bhakti, to inwardness, and to concentration of mind.
Even the greatest saints, yogis, and avatars keep doing it right to the very
end, and even during the death process: Call out to God within!
Children should be given faith in the Higher Being, and his
Representative, and taught to address God both silently and
out-loud, from an early age.

4
Devoting Sunday
to being alone with God, in worship, in spiritual reading, meditation, and austerities.

COMMENTARY.
Should be done by all. It is the beginning of your spiritual path, and the footpath of the saints,
to set that one day a week aside for God alone. Much progress can then be made.
Sunday is the day of most intense spiritual effort. Just as an athlete doesn't try to
run his fastest or make his most strenuous efforts every day, but reserves that for
the meets and games -- Sunday is the day you should strive toward your highest
spirituality. Don't allow Jews to mock the fact that your Sunday is more holy than
the other days. (As they have long done, trying to discredit Gentile and Christian
spiritual culture). That is the point: To make your very best spiritual effort that
day, and to devote that day to God, especially God-worship and the search
for God within one's own consciousness, back of the mind, through meditation,
religious singing, prayer, chanting, and other intense spiritual practices.
Sages say: "Regularity is one thing; intensity is another."
It's during times of greatest intensity that people have breakthroughs. So on Sunday
you will make more and more spiritual breakthroughs within yourself toward divine bliss,
and these will stay with you more and more on other days.

Gentiles should convert to Saturdays as family and social days,
Sundays as no work spiritual contemplation days, with gatherings
(church) for community worship (except for hermits), then Monday as an "after Sunday" day.
The Monday, or "after Sunday" day, should be completely unstructured, allowing the spiritual
efforts of the day before to really take hold and remain. It can be a day, also, of gradually
easing back into work and the world, if desired, throughout the day
but with no obligation or hurry. This is the day of pure freedom and enjoyment
of the spiritual life within at its deepest. Solitude should be the keynote.
The most religious business owners should stay closed or open late.
Work can then resume in earnest on Tuesday.
This allows for a fuller digestion of the spiritual effort of Sunday, and for
those more social (involved with churches and spiritual groups), it can be more of a true solitude day.

In Vedic terms the traditional Gentile Sunday has been like a Kyastriya day,
matching the Kyastriya phase of later life. In the kyastria (warrior) phase,
one becomes somewhat detached from the ordinary world, begins to do
austerities and spiritual practices, and attends to the well-being and spiritual
guidance of society.

The after-Sunday day (Monday) that is completely unstructured, corresponds
to the Saddhu/Sannyas phase or last phase of life, where there is complete
aloneness and contemplation for truly make way for the relationship with God,
and be ready for the passing in a detached state. In Vedic tradition, this was
when the elderly devoted completely to God-communion and left conventional
society for the forests or wilderness. The Monday, or after-Sunday day, has this
same purpose and feeling.

Sunday is the cracking of the coconut, the cracking of the shell of worldliness, and that work,
with some bliss and joy in both meditation and the spiritual life of the community.
Monday is the deeper enjoyment of its fruits and juices -- the life of real divine contemplation and detachment.
Shops should be closed on Sundays, but not necessarily Mondays.
Work should be dropped for as much as is practicable.
Gatherings should be around a spiritual or worship purpose,
and not purely for social or family purposes. Shops should be generally closed.
Music should be of a satvic, God-turned nature.

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Continence
COMMENTARY.
This sadhana and austerity is:
a) Of critical importance for spiritual development and inner realization, and
b) of critical importance for having a decent, undisturbed life, and
c) of critical importance for being effective and productive in ordinary life, and
d) misunderstood and devalued in the false "eastern spiritual culture" that has been
imported to the west, including the false "yoga" culture, and
e) produces immediate spiritual results and personal life improvements,
including greater life success and leisure/time for devoting to meditation,
because of the automatic improvement of karma and cessation of heavily
distracting bad karma that emerges spontaneously in one's life
after sexual loss, and
f) The key to the negative conditions in one's outer world -- from the news-of-the-world
out to the farthest stars, and
g) makes meditation far more effective and fruitful, and
h) makes one ripe and suitable for shakipat and the activation of kundalini processes, and
i) must be pursued by women at the emotional level, while it's a more technical and biological attainment for men, and
j) makes one able to penetrate to, and perceive the divine perceptions within, then
k) makes one able to withstand, cope with, and engage with those divine perceptions, and
l) is difficult to master and takes constant effort at improvement, and
m) is the practice and path of all the great saints and avatars, without exception, and
n) which sheds lesser moral laws into the culture and the moral organization of society,
making conventional society people and families more protected and prosperous,
including the direction of sex to it's proper purpose, and the raising of one's
people's birth rate.

No man truly sets foot on the spiritual path of the saints until he begins making
a serious effort at continence. This is the single most important austerity and sadhana
after guru-devotion and making the effort is more important, even, than prayer and meditation
yet makes those fruitful and successful.

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Silence
COMMENTARY:
It is good to devote Sundays to silence, or the day-after-Sunday.
It is also to have special retreats of 2-3 days in which you practice silence.
This helps the ego and its chatter calm down, and makes one more perceptive to
the inner spiritual perceptions, which are Most Joyful and Most Powerful while
at the same time being Most Subtle.

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Fasting
COMMENTARY.
Fasting is powerful, cuts away inner impurities rapidly, including the karmic inheritance of
subtle impurities, pleases God, opens up spiritual perceptions, makes you less dependent on
food afterward. (And more and more with each succeeding fast.) It opens up your ability to
absorb fundamental life energy (prana) directly. It improves health, makes prayers effective,
and brings visions and knowledge. If you have not done a fast before, you should start
by fasting just one Sunday a month, not eating the whole day. That is, you should wake up,
have only water that day, and go to bed that way. Break the fast the next day with a breakfast.
This will give you 24 hours + of fasting. If this is too hard, break it in the evening of Sunday
until you get through the full day and into sleep. After a few of these, try some 2-day fasts.
Then get to 3-days. The 3-day period is where the real "fasting zone" begins and the body's
ancient fasting mechanisms are awakened. After doing at least three 3-day fasts, with
good breaks in between of normal eating, start doing fasts of increased lengths.
A week-long fast on only water should then become a pleasant attainment, and you
will regret breaking these fasts because of the spiritual states attained.
However, after the fast, your karmic load has been lightened, your absorption of
pranic energy is permanently increased, your health should be better, and your life will become
less disturbed and the spiritual perceptions nearer.

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Religious and devotional chanting
COMMENTARY.
Powerfully effective, powerfully purifying. Have the attitude of bhakti first.
This method is so powerful and immediately effective that it would be best if
you received your chanting technique from a Godly source and not from random books.
However, if you have some bhakti, and some spiritual austerities behind you, and
if you are careful about your sources and begin slowly, you could begin to have
the safe and luminous benefits of out loud chanting through your own investigations.
The occult and spiritual power of out-loud chanting, which is a powerful form
of meditation, is often overlooked and not understood. Really serious God-seekers
with bhakti can begin to experiment with this on their own. Highest and fastest
results will come from getting your mantra or chanting technique from another
devotee who has a divine connection in his own chanting.

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Meditation
COMMENTARY.
This is the richest and profoundest realm of sadhanas and spiritual techniques.
When a man becomes a true God-seeker, he becomes interested in meditation.
God is found behind the curtains of the constantly moving mind. He begins to be first
experienced as bliss/ananda, which gradually suffuses the mind and body.

Meditation is like the bread-and-butter austerity of spiritual aspirants.
It is like the Master Austerity, because in meditation one renounces
his very mind, which is the seat of all worldly pleasures and experiences.
Thus worldly attachment and engagement with worldly karma are chopped
right at the root, via meditation.

There are many meditation techniques. Meditation is made more fruitful,
for reasons not generally not understood, if the technique is received via
1) asking, 2) of a yogi who has himself attained spiritual fruit with that
meditation technique. However, spiritual progress can be made also using
techniques studied in books and lessons. The Vijnana-Bhairava is an
ancient Indian scripture listing a large number of meditation techniques.
It begins with some detail on a profound meditation technique that combines a
mantra with the breath, and this is one of the main techniques used by
Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Nityananda, Muktananda, and
other siddhas. To approach meditation in the wisest way, one should
first cultivate a positive regard for a saint, guru, or advanced yogi.
Then one should approach that person, whether they are living or not,
for information about technique.

Christians can find information about meditation techniques in the
writings of their saints. They should cultivate first a positive and emotional
regard for both Christ and that saint, then study the technique described by that
saint, or which may also be given within their monastic orders by
advancing Christian monks and nuns.

It is best to have one main technique, then use supplementary techniques
to freshen your interest in sadhana. Then all of the techniques will start to
manifest their own special fruit. Eventually one arrives at a meditation technique
that is his most effective and most alive.

Meditation is a vast subject. One thing to realize is that a
technique can seem very simple and unassuming and yet it can be loaded
with profound secrets and mysteries. As you practice the technique with faith
and devotion, it starts to reveal its secrets. Thus one of the commentators wrote
in The Yoga-Sutra, "Then the yoga goeth forth by yoga alone."
In other words, the technique itself starts to teach you about itself, shows you more depths,
and you are also led to new meditation techniques that are uniquely you own, or which you can
teach to some others should the occasion arise. This is, in fact, the way that most of the known
meditation techniques were originally discovered and described. They were discovered
by God-seeking men and women, and handed down.

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Guru Bhakti I
COMMENTARY.

This is the single-most important sadhana and spiritual technique.
All can be attained by this alone, including all techniques and gifts.

-- Meditating on the guru/Christ
-- Chanting/singing to the guru
-- Visualizing yourself with the guru
-- Visualizing yourself serving the guru
-- Holding a posture for the guru
-- Transmitting all pleasures and charming moments to the guru;
sharing these with the guru
(For Christians, the "guru" can easily be Christ)

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Holding a posture
COMMENTARY:
Most of these occult purposes for yogic postures are not understood in the
western "yoga" culture (W.A.B.Y.) In genuine yoga, posture has value but
in the west it is both over-emphasized while at the same time its real purpose
is not understood.
One of the main purposes for holding yogic postures is that they
function as a difficult, even painful, austerity. By engaging in the painfulness of
holding a posture, this increasingly breaks ties to the body and
the attachment to bodily comfort, giving the mind freedom.
Steady posture also makes the instability
of the mind more clear and apparent, giving a better table-platform for
working on concentration of mind. So steady posture aids development
of concentration-meditation. Also, the pain and discomfort felt when holding
steady and even difficult posture, when ignored, gives great vairagya/detachment
from the body and finally freedom from impact by any bodily discomfort.
However, holding yogic postures is not of critical importance in yogic austerities beyond
the straightness of the spine in meditation, and can be viewed as a supplementary austerity.
The Yoga-Sutra is the most comprehensive book on yoga and it only mentions
body posture once: Advising that the spine be erect and naturally settled when
meditating. The rest of the sutras deal with the states and processes of the mind,
because yoga is really about mastery of, and thinning of, the mind and its action.
Administrations to the body are supplementary and have for their purpose to aid
the real yoga, which is and address to the mind. For our brotherhood, sitting
in a chair, or with crossed legs, and the spine held erect and settled, is
completely sufficient as far as yoga is concerned. When the real yoga
is done, kundalini becomes activated and the body goes into many beautiful
spontaneous yogic postures called kriyas, and this is how knowledge about
yogic postures actually first arose. Our Brotherhood is a rare fount of
genuine yoga in the west today.

One of our special Brotherhood sadhanas involving postures is mentioned above,
"holding a posture for the guru." The spiritual impact of posture is
extraordinarily increased through this simple device of "holding the posture
for the guru." One can imagine he is sitting or standing WITH the guru in his
own meditation retreat or ashram, and hold the posture for him alone.
In like manner, our brotherhood employs very simple postures such as
"standing guard" with the same ideas in mind, and these have a much greater
spiritual impact that simply doing yoga-studio postures without the right
inner posture, purpose, and bhakti attitude. The exotic postures often seen
in western yoga studios today (W.A.B.Y. studios), are only spiritually efficacious
if employed with the right inner attitude, and they arose originally with the dawning
of kundalini and spontaneous kriyas. So there is no need for our Brotherhood to
give them importance beyond a few simple ones, employed with the right
efficacious inner attitude of purpose and bhakti.

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Pranayama
-- Meditation techniques involving the breath
-- Sitkari, sitali, and other pranayamas
-- Kumbhaka

COMMENTARY:
The simple nose pranayamas such as sitali are safe for most people to do
without much spiritual culture in advance. Pranayamas unfold naturally for the
one with an awakened kundalini, guru bhakti, and an initiation from an awakened
guru. In this case, there is nothing to worry about and not even much to know about
the techniques. Your techniques of pranayama will dawn on their own.
There is much written about pranayamas in ancient yogic texts and also modern
material. In the modern material, pranayama is largely misunderstood.
The real goal of pranayama is the state of samadhi including the complete
cessation of breath or kumbhaka. It is best not to play around with the more
intense forms of pranayama such as bhastrika (bellows) or even
sitkari (teeth/tongue blow-throughs) unless you have some substantial meditation
already, some fasting and purification, some bhakti, and a guru connection.
Pranayama should not be played around with based on random readings
from texts, unless you are an advancing yogi. It IS POSSIBLE
to mess yourself up a bit physically and even mentally by doing
the stronger, more intense forms of pranayama before you are
spiritually cultured for it and without some good instruction
to avoid physical harm. In pranayama techniques, occult prana
is being concentrated, directed, and FORCED into astral
channels of the body. It is a powerful force and should not be
played around with casually without the other pre-conditions described.

10 again
Guru Bhakti II
-- Doing things for the guru
-- Thinking of God's nature
-- Breathing with the guru
-- Breathing with God

COMMENTARY:
The value and significance of guru-bhakti cannot be overstated.
Thus it is brought up a second time here. The techniques or inner activities
mentioned above are more advanced, so they have been separated from the first list.

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Claiming Your Church

COMMENTARY:
The religious traditions and religious culture of the Gentiles, our White European peoples,
are vast, profound, full of wisdom and mystical knowledge, supported and uncovered
by miraculous saints, and filled with noble aspirations. Most of the good of the White
European peoples -- including their humanitarian and selfless instincts toward all
peoples of the world -- have arisen from their Christian religions. The spiritual knowledge
found on this page, itself, is a fruit of having been brought up in the Catholic Church.
Gentiles should claim a church -- or several churches! -- and draw from them the best they
presently have to offer, while offering their own energies to strengthen and revivify
that church. The church was once the cohesion of a community. Our peoples were
bonded together along the lines of the highest ideals and aspirations, and had deep
community bonds because of shared religious ideals. The family is the first glue of
community and the most profound. But the Church is the glue of larger community;
community that creates greater culture, civic life, and community security.
The Gentile churches have been under vicious attack in the western lands now for
several centuries by an alien presence inside of Gentile communities. The attack
primarily consists in attacking and discrediting the churches, along with offering
heavy inducements toward the world of carnality and distraction.

The Christian churches contain the mystical secrets of God-communion.
They contain the secrets of yoga (God-communion) found in scriptures like
the Yoga-Sutra and the Bhagavad-Gita. Jesus Christ and His saints have great
potency to open the mind to the pure divinity within and save the mind and body
from worldly karma, entanglement, and conditioning.

Gentiles will survive and prosper again, plus re-open the pathways to the divine
life of prosperity and God-bliss. The Gentiles need to return to their churches,
find the good in them, excise the useless worldliness in them, and if necessary,
rectify them from within through their own spiritual austerities and wisdom.
Churches with the most virile, honest, and brave ministers/priests should
receive the most support. If your church is lacking one of these,
take over in his place.

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Listing to God as Aum

COMMENTARY:
Once this is found, no other techniques are needed.
Aum will be heard through 1) Continence, 2) meditation using a few particular techniques,
and 3) guru bhakti.

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Viewing all you see as an emanation of yourself; as belonging to you.

COMMENTARY:
This is particularly good to do this practice on Sundays. It takes you out of the characteristic
reaction mode as an ego, helps you get ready for the after-death states, and makes Sunday
more harmonious and calm. The rest of the week, we have our duties, must engage
with the various forces and players in our world-stage. But in this practice, you try
to stay with the realization -- and it's a truth -- that all you experience externally,
including people and the way they behave, and world and cultural conditions,
are all your own self-created projections. This changes the way you react
to them. When encountering something or someone negative, unpleasant,
ignorant, or hostile, contemplate him as a projection of your own self
and karma and try to breath/transmit virtue and higher possibilities
into your projection. (The person or situation.)

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Wandering homeless
COMMENTARY:
This can be done young or old, at any time, and is always enjoyed by
the God-lover seeking greater detachment and God-reliance.
It should be done young, in the early stages of spiritual questing,
and also old, in the last stages.

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Spiritual and community service
-- Morally regenerating them; teaching sexual morality and self-control
-- Showing them the way to inner bliss; teaching the sadhanas
-- Resisting and exposing "one world" and other government controllers/manipulators, communism, etc.
-- Creating brotherhood households
-- Matching marrying men to the right wives, creating social and courtship structures
-- Helping whole families form and prosper
-- Preserving the races, ethnes, and cultures, especially your own
-- Teaching simplicity of living and self-sufficiency
-- Regenerating Sunday communal God-time (Church)
-- Reducing car-hells; redesigned town for civilized life
-- Development and protection of music and other arts, in our racial traditions

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Prayer For The People,
Destruction of Evil Influences Through Prayer

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For Marrying Men, When Time:
Devotion to Wife and Family and
Raising Good Children,
and Working Hard, and Contributing
to your church or brotherhood